Door-fastener.



G. W. WORTHINGTON.

DOOR FASTENER.

APPLIGATION FILED 0011s, 1914.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. WOR'IHINGTON, OF RUSI-IVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRDTO HENRY O. MUNSON, 6F RUSHVILLE, ILLINOIS.

DO OR-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

Application filed October 13, 1914. Serial No. 866,444.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. WORTH- mcrron, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Rushville, in the county of Schuyler and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Fasteners, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to hasps employed on doors, gates and similarclosures, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructeddevice which cannot be opened except by disposing the parts in anunusual position, and is designed more particularly to prevent animals,for instance a tricky horse, from manipulating the catch to release thesame.

The improved device may be employed upon gates, barn doors, and thelike, and it is not desired therefore, to limit the invention in anymanner in this respect, but for the purpose of illustration, theimproved device is shown applied to a conventional barn or stable door,and in the drawings thus employed Figure 1 is an elevation ofa portionof a door and a portion of one of the jambs, with the improved deviceapplied and in open position. Fig. 2 is an end elevation with the doorjamb in section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view similar toFig. 1 showing the improved device in closed or locked position. Fig. 4is an end elevation of the device arranged as shown in Fig. 3 with thedoor jamb in section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view ofthe device arranged as shown in Fig. 3 with the door jamb and door insection on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

A portion of a door is represented conventionally at 10 and a portion ofone of the jambs at 11. Attached to one of the memhers, for instance thejamb member 11, is a hasp holding member formed with a base portion 12attached to the jamb by screws, bolt, or other fastening devicesindicated at 13. At one end the member 12 is formed into a hook liketerminal 14, preferably with the bill portion slotted at its ter-- minaland spaced away from the face of the member 11.

The hasp device, represented as a whole at 16, forms a part of theimproved device and is mounted to swing at one end upon a staple 17, anopening 18 in the hasp, which engages over the staple being preferablyelongated to provide for longitudinal movement to a certain extent ofthe hasp relative to the staple and the door. The major portion of thehasp 16 is relatively thick, and rounded as indicated at 19, and theremaining portion reduced, as indicated at 20, the reduced portion beingat one side only of the hasp, or next to the fiat side and continuingthe same, as represented in Fig. 5, so that the major portion of thethicker rounded part of the hasp protrudes beyond the reduced portion 20at one side. By this means the hasp overhangs or is weighted at one sideto cause the same to automatically overturn when disposed in oneposition, as hereinafter explained. The protruding rounded face of thehasp is an important feature of the device as the hasp is thereby causedto readily overturn against the face of the door when being closed, ashereinafter more fully explained. Formed through the reduced portion 20of the hasp is an elongated opening 21. to engage over the hook 14. Thedoor portion 10 is preferably provided with an opening 22 to enable afinger to be used for manually actu ating the hasp from the inner faceof the door, as will be obvious.

When not in use the hasp hangs downwardly upon the staple 17 and whenthe hasp is to be applied it is elevated and turned with its flat faceagainst the door 10, which will bring the hasp into the position shownin Fig. 1 with the reduced portion 20 in position to pass between theterminals 15 of the hooks 14 and the face of the door jamb 11. This willbring the opening 21 opposite the bill portion 15 of the hook, and thenby slightly turning the hasp outwardly at its upper edge, the weightedside 19 will cause the rounded protruding por tion 19 to roll over theadjacent face of the door and automatically overturn the hasp and movethe portion of the hasp at one side of the opening 21 over the hook 14:until the hasp assumes the position shown in Figs. 3,

i and 5,.and lock the hasp, in position rela tive to the hooks. The haspwill thus-be caused to make acomplete half revolution into closedposition, and cannot be removed "'unles's'rotated in the oppositedirection for an equal full half revolution, a movement which cannot beaccomplished except manu ally. With a device thus constructed, it wouldbe impossible for an animal, for in- 10' stance a tricky horse, to openthe hasp by manipulating it with the teeth, as is comv monly done withordinary hasps. The slot in thehook 14: is suffioiently large to receivethe bolt of a padlock or like fastening del 'vice, as shown by dottedlinesat 23, the padlock bolt thus serving to prevent theoverturning ofthe hasp and its consequent release. The roundedportion 19 of the haspbears against the door and thus prevents "rattling of looseness betweenthe parts.-

The- -iniproved-device is simple inconstruction, can is be ilnexpensively manufactured and applied without increase m-expense todoors, gates, and like 'closures'of 25 -various forms and slzes'.

Having thus described the invention what isola'imed as new is:

1.'In* a device of-the'class described, an attaching member and a hooked-member,

39 said hooked member having an inwardly directed terminal, a hasphaving an aperture I near-one end loosely engaging said attaching memberand an aperture near the other end adaptedto'engage the hooked member,said aperture near one end loosely engaging said attaching member and anaperture near the other end adapted to engage the hooked member, saidhasp extending over the aperture of the door when engaged with thehooked member and releasable from the hooked member through the dooraperture.

3. In a device of the class described, the

- combination with a door jamb and a door,

of an attaching member upon said door, a member including hooks spacedapart and attached to said jamb, the terminals of the hooks being spacedfrom the face of the jamb,'a hasp loosely engaging said attach-' ingmember and having an aperture near its freeend adapted to engage overthe hooks, and a lockdevice adapted to be engaged with one 40f saidhooks and preventing the overturning of the hasp.

In testimony whereof I ali'ix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES W. WORTHINGTON.

Witnesses:

H. WALTER 'CoB, J. V. CoRMAN.

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